Here's the thing ... you say stand strong and don't compromise on 8 things. Someone else says stand strong and don't compromise on 8 things but 1 or 2 are different from your 8. Another person says he wants to stand strong on 7 things but 2 of HIS are different. The way things stand now, the Dems win every time because the non-Dems fight about the 1 or 2 things they disagree on instead of pressing for the 5 or 6 they agree on. Dividing the non-Democrats is how the Dems have been winning for the last 7 or 8 years (and during the first Bush presidency).

Oh and as far as the OP goes ... every time I see "A Modest Proposal", I think of someone eating Irish babies. Geez Louise, don't they expose anyone to Jonathan Swift and satire anymore?